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City of Pleasanton <br />Emergency Operations Plan <br /> 33 June 2025 <br />individuals and government entities to recover <br />from the effects of a disaster. <br />Resources: Personnel and equipment available, <br />or potentially available, for assignment to <br />incidents or to EOCs. Resources are described <br />by kind and type and may be used in tactical <br />support or supervisory capacities at an incident <br />or at EOCs. <br />Response: Activities to address the immediate <br />and short-term effects of an emergency or <br />disaster. Response includes immediate actions <br />to save lives, protect property and the <br />environment, stabilize communities, and meet <br />basic human needs following an incident. Based <br />on the requirements of the situation, response <br />assistance will be provided to an affected State <br />under the National Response Framework using <br />a partial activation of selected Emergency <br />Support Functions (ESF) or full activation of all <br />ESF to meet the needs of the situation. <br />Risk: Potential for an unwanted outcome <br />resulting from an incident, event, or <br />occurrence, as determined by its likelihood and <br />associated consequences. <br />Special District: A unit of local government <br />(other than a City, County, or City and County) <br />with authority or responsibility to own, operate, <br />or maintain a project (as defined in California <br />Code of Regulations 2900(s) for purposes of <br />natural disaster assistance. This may include a <br />joint powers authority established under <br />section 6500 et seq. of the Code. <br />Stafford Act: Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief <br />and Emergency Assistance Act, PL 100-707, <br />signed into law June 23, 1988; amended the <br />Disaster Relief Act of 1974, and the Sandy <br />Recovery Improvement Act of 2013. <br /> Standard Operating Procedures (SOP): A set of <br />instructions having the force of a directive, <br />covering those features of operations that lend <br />themselves to a definite or standardized <br />procedure. Standard operating procedures <br />support an annex by indicating in detail how a <br />particular task will be carried out. <br /> Standardized Emergency Management System <br />(SEMS): A system required by California <br />Government Code for managing response to <br />multi-agency and multi-jurisdiction emergencies <br />in California. SEMS consists of five <br />organizational levels that are activated as <br />necessary: Field Response, Local Government, <br />Operation Area, Region, and State. <br />State of Emergency: The duly proclaimed <br />existence of conditions of disaster or of extreme <br />peril to the safety of persons and property <br />within the State caused by such conditions as <br />air pollution, fire, flood, storm, epidemic, riot, <br />TEP: Training and Exercise Plan – a plan that <br />outlines a schedule of emergency management <br />and related training courses for EOC and other <br />support staff, as well as a calendar of scheduled <br />EOC and similar exercises. <br />Threat: An indication of possible violence, <br />harm, or danger. <br />Vulnerability: Physical feature or operational <br />attribute that renders an entity open to <br />exploitation or susceptible to a given hazard. <br /> <br />Page 237 of 264